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AL GORE
PRESIDENT '88
AL GORE Fights for Us
This is a fight for America's future. We stand at a fork in the road. For your children and mine, we must choose a new path toward a future with hope.
I have four goals:
A WINNING FORMULA
"Gore has returned to what was a simple winning formula for the Democratic Party, an activist foreign policy backed by military strength and an energetic domestic policy in behalf of the economically weak and vulnerable."
–William Shannon
Boston Globe
AL GORE Will Win in November
Al Gore is a United States Senator from Tennessee. He and his wife Tipper have four children: Karenna 14, Kristin 10, Sarah 9, and Albert 5.
Al was raised in Carthage, Tennessee, and in Washington, D.C., where his father served in the U.S. Senate. He earned a scholarship at Harvard and graduated with honors in 1969. He then volunteered for the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam.
After returning home to Tennessee, he worked as a newspaper reporter for The Tennessean and studied theology and law at Vanderbilt University. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976.
In 1984, he was elected to the Senate with more votes than any other candidate in Tennessee's history.
Tipper Gore is an author and a leading advocate for family values. When the Senate is not in session, the family lives on a small livestock farm near Carthage.
In Congress, Al Gore has embodied the values of the Democratic Party, effectively initiating and supporting sound, significant legislation. He was named "one of the six most effective mcmbers of Congress" by The Washington Monthly.
[photo credit] Zigy Kaluzny, The New York Times
AL GORE: Leadership to Renew the American Spirit
Building a Safer World:
Al Gore is one of the leading arms control experts in the country. His arms control plan would make it impossible for either superpower to gain an advantage from a first strike.
Restoring Economic Strength:
Al Gore will work for Americans to give them the tools they need to compete in the world economy – the best educational system in the world, job training, and day care. He will also forge a responsible budget policy that restores confidence in our economy.
The Best Schools:
Al Gore will help America compete for the future with sharper minds, not lower wages, by investing in early education, doing more to attract our best and brightest college graduates to the teaching profession, and setting a national goal of creating the best schools in the entire world.
Social Security:
Al Gore will protect our Social Security system so that older Americans can be assured financial security.
A Just and Fair Society:
Al Gore will continue the struggle to expand opportunities for ali Americans and to fight for civil, equal, and human rights.
A Clean Environment:
Al Gore was a principal author of the landmark Superfund Act to clean up hazardous waste dumps and is now chairman of the leading environmental protection group in Congress. He will fight to reverse the trends that threaten deterioration of our water, air, soil, and ozone layer.
Sensible Farm Policies:
As the owner of an active livestock farm, Al Gore has offered a prograrn to enlarge the nation's conservation reserve, improve commodity policies and promote rural economic development.
A National Energy Policy:
Al Gore believes this nation must stop its growing reliance on imported oil and put our energy workers back on thejob. That will be a top priority of the Gore Administration.
Strong Families:
Al Gore will work for policies to strengthen families, including better child care, a vigorous war on drugs and a renewed commitment to America's children.
A Healthy Nation:
Al Gore will work to lower health care costs, provide long-term care for the elderly, reduce infant mortality and find cures for Alzheimer's and AIDS.
"Gore has demonstrated an ability to master large and complicated problems – nuclear arms control being the foremost example."
– Morton Kondracke
The New Republic
Here's what others are saying about AL GORE:
VIRGINIA;
"Virginia has a longstanding tradition of producing and of recognizing great leaders. I believe that Senator Gore best personifíes the leadership that Virginia and this nation deserve and expect."
– Mary Sue Terry
Attorney General
TEXAS:
"I think he has the ideas that will take this country forward. I think we're all concerned with the overall economy, not only about this state but this nation."
– Gib Lewis
Speaker of the House
CALIFORNIA:
"We have a common bond in recognizing that arms control is the central issue of our age. There is no one l would rather see sit across the table from Mikhail Gorbachev [than Al Gore]."
– Tom Lantos
U.S. House of Representatives
NORTH CAROLINA:
"l think he has the talent and the skill to lead the nation and l support him with the complete confidence that he will make an outstanding president."
– Terry Sanford
U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON:
"l've been in the House for 19 years and I can say that l've never seen a more intelligent member."
– Norman D. Dicks
U.S. House of Representatives
FLORIDA:
"Our nation, and our times, demand a leader with vision, strength and intelligence. I believe we have found him in Al Gore."
–Jon Mills
Speaker of the House of Representatives
ALABAMA:
"Al Gore has the best chance of all the Democrats to win in November."
– Jim Folsom, Jr.
Lt. Governor
NEVADA:
"[Al Gore is] a unifying force behind which the Democratic Party can once again become a national party."
– Harry Reid
U.S. Senate
Gore Endorsement List Grows and Grows
Speaker Pro Tem Hugo Berlanga, Jr. (Tex.)
Majority Whip Marjorie Burke (W. Va.)
Commissioner of Agriculture Butch Burnett (Ky.)
U. S. Rep. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.)
Speaker Pro Tem Jim Campbell (Ala)
Speaker Jimmy Clark (Ark.)
Former State Treasurer Bill Cole (Miss.)
Former Gov. J. P. Coleman (Miss.)
Commissioner Jim Clyburn (S. Carol.)
U. S. Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.)
U. S. Rep. Norm Dicks (Wash.)
Speaker Joe Dini (Nev.)
President Pro Tem Ryan deGraffenried, Jr. (Ala.)
U.S. Rep. Tom Downey (N.Y.)
Lt. Gov. Brad Dye (Miss.)
Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom, Jr. (Ala)
U. S. Rep. Bart Gordon (Tenn.)
Atty. Gen. Robert Henry (Okla.)
Former Gov. Ed Herschler (Wy.)
Former Gov. Jim Hunt (N. Carol.)
State Auditor Pete Johnson (Miss.)
U. S. Rep. Ed Jones (Tenn.)
State Auditor Julia Hughes Jones (Ark.)
U. S. Rep. Tom Lantos (Calif.)
Speaker Gib Lewis (Tex.)
U. S. Rep. Marilyn Lloyd (Tenn.)
Secretary of State Bill McCuen (Ark.)
Former Sen. Tom Mclntyre (N. Hamp.)
U. S. Rep. Tom McMillen (Md.)
Gov. Ned McWherter (Tenn.)
Senate President Mike Miller (Md.)
Speaker Jon Mills (Fla.)
Speaker Clayton Mitchell, Jr. (Md.)
Speaker Tom Murphy (Ga)
Commissioner Bob Odom (La.)
U. S. Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.)
State Auditor Ed Renfrow (N. Carol.)
U. S. Sen. TerrySanford (N. Carol.)
U. S. Sen. Jim Sasser (Tenn.)
Former Gov. Grant Sawyer (Nev.)
Speaker Bob Sheheen (S. Carol.)
House Majority Leader Greg Stumbo (Ky.)
Public Service Commissioner D. W. Snyder (Miss.)
Atty. General Mary Sue Terry (Va.)
Secretary of Labor Gail Truly (La.)
Gov. Wallace Wilkinson (Ky.)
Treasurer Bill Wiley (Va.)
...And by 500 state and local officials from the following states:
Yes! I want to join these Americans in supporting Senator Gore
□ I will serve on Al Gore's steering committee.
□ I will pass out literature in my congressional district.
□ I will volunteer for Al Gore in my congressional district.
□ I will call other Democrats in my congressional district on behalf of Gore.
□ Here's my contribution for $
National Campaign Headquarters
P.O. Box 15800
Arlington, VA 22215
703-979-1988
[union bug] Paid for by Albert Gore, Jr. for President Committee, Inc.
AL GORE
PRESIDENT '88
AL GORE Fights for Us
This is a fight for America's future. We stand at a fork in the road. For your children and mine, we must choose a new path toward a future with hope.
I have four goals:
- Rebuilding America's economic strength.
- Rekindling our commitment to social justice.
- Ending the arms race by negotiating from a position of strength.
- Restoring integrity to the White House.
A WINNING FORMULA
"Gore has returned to what was a simple winning formula for the Democratic Party, an activist foreign policy backed by military strength and an energetic domestic policy in behalf of the economically weak and vulnerable."
–William Shannon
Boston Globe
AL GORE Will Win in November
Al Gore is a United States Senator from Tennessee. He and his wife Tipper have four children: Karenna 14, Kristin 10, Sarah 9, and Albert 5.
Al was raised in Carthage, Tennessee, and in Washington, D.C., where his father served in the U.S. Senate. He earned a scholarship at Harvard and graduated with honors in 1969. He then volunteered for the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam.
After returning home to Tennessee, he worked as a newspaper reporter for The Tennessean and studied theology and law at Vanderbilt University. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976.
In 1984, he was elected to the Senate with more votes than any other candidate in Tennessee's history.
Tipper Gore is an author and a leading advocate for family values. When the Senate is not in session, the family lives on a small livestock farm near Carthage.
In Congress, Al Gore has embodied the values of the Democratic Party, effectively initiating and supporting sound, significant legislation. He was named "one of the six most effective mcmbers of Congress" by The Washington Monthly.
- Economic Growth: Advocate of sound fiscal policy, global economic growth, and American competitiveness. Member of Senate Democratic Budget Task Force, and co-author of Democratic Caucus "Economic Alternatives" report.
- National Security: As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and former member of the House lntelligence Committee, he has much-respected expertise in national defense and global security.
- Nuclear Arms: Created a widely praised plan to reduce the threat of attack and is among the nation's leading experts on arms control. Member of the U.S. Senate Arms Control Observer Group to monitor the arms talks in Geneva.
- Health Protection: Wrote laws to protect children from defective infant formula and to aid those who need transplants through a national organ donor network.
- Environmental Protection: Led the fight for clean groundwater and clean air as chairman of the leading environmental protection group in Congress, as well as led the first investigation and helped write the law to clean up toxic dumps around the country.
- Individual Freedom: Has fought for stronger civil rights and equal rights, and has lobbied for sanctions against South Africa to encourage an end to apartheid.
- Education: Pioneered the effort to eliminate illiteracy in the U.S. by the year 2000 and co-chairs the Congressional Task Force on Illiteracy.
- Utility Rates: Successfully sponsored legislation to Iower telephone and electric rates for Americans in rural areas. Chairman of the Senate Consumer Subcommittee.
- The Elderly: Passed legislation to protect older Americans from worthless "Medigap" insurance.
- The Homeless: Leading advocate and principal sponsor of bill to guarantee homeless men, women and children the right to shelter, job training and mental health services.
[photo credit] Zigy Kaluzny, The New York Times
AL GORE: Leadership to Renew the American Spirit
Building a Safer World:
Al Gore is one of the leading arms control experts in the country. His arms control plan would make it impossible for either superpower to gain an advantage from a first strike.
Restoring Economic Strength:
Al Gore will work for Americans to give them the tools they need to compete in the world economy – the best educational system in the world, job training, and day care. He will also forge a responsible budget policy that restores confidence in our economy.
The Best Schools:
Al Gore will help America compete for the future with sharper minds, not lower wages, by investing in early education, doing more to attract our best and brightest college graduates to the teaching profession, and setting a national goal of creating the best schools in the entire world.
Social Security:
Al Gore will protect our Social Security system so that older Americans can be assured financial security.
A Just and Fair Society:
Al Gore will continue the struggle to expand opportunities for ali Americans and to fight for civil, equal, and human rights.
A Clean Environment:
Al Gore was a principal author of the landmark Superfund Act to clean up hazardous waste dumps and is now chairman of the leading environmental protection group in Congress. He will fight to reverse the trends that threaten deterioration of our water, air, soil, and ozone layer.
Sensible Farm Policies:
As the owner of an active livestock farm, Al Gore has offered a prograrn to enlarge the nation's conservation reserve, improve commodity policies and promote rural economic development.
A National Energy Policy:
Al Gore believes this nation must stop its growing reliance on imported oil and put our energy workers back on thejob. That will be a top priority of the Gore Administration.
Strong Families:
Al Gore will work for policies to strengthen families, including better child care, a vigorous war on drugs and a renewed commitment to America's children.
A Healthy Nation:
Al Gore will work to lower health care costs, provide long-term care for the elderly, reduce infant mortality and find cures for Alzheimer's and AIDS.
"Gore has demonstrated an ability to master large and complicated problems – nuclear arms control being the foremost example."
– Morton Kondracke
The New Republic
Here's what others are saying about AL GORE:
VIRGINIA;
"Virginia has a longstanding tradition of producing and of recognizing great leaders. I believe that Senator Gore best personifíes the leadership that Virginia and this nation deserve and expect."
– Mary Sue Terry
Attorney General
TEXAS:
"I think he has the ideas that will take this country forward. I think we're all concerned with the overall economy, not only about this state but this nation."
– Gib Lewis
Speaker of the House
CALIFORNIA:
"We have a common bond in recognizing that arms control is the central issue of our age. There is no one l would rather see sit across the table from Mikhail Gorbachev [than Al Gore]."
– Tom Lantos
U.S. House of Representatives
NORTH CAROLINA:
"l think he has the talent and the skill to lead the nation and l support him with the complete confidence that he will make an outstanding president."
– Terry Sanford
U.S. Senate
WASHINGTON:
"l've been in the House for 19 years and I can say that l've never seen a more intelligent member."
– Norman D. Dicks
U.S. House of Representatives
FLORIDA:
"Our nation, and our times, demand a leader with vision, strength and intelligence. I believe we have found him in Al Gore."
–Jon Mills
Speaker of the House of Representatives
ALABAMA:
"Al Gore has the best chance of all the Democrats to win in November."
– Jim Folsom, Jr.
Lt. Governor
NEVADA:
"[Al Gore is] a unifying force behind which the Democratic Party can once again become a national party."
– Harry Reid
U.S. Senate
Gore Endorsement List Grows and Grows
Speaker Pro Tem Hugo Berlanga, Jr. (Tex.)
Majority Whip Marjorie Burke (W. Va.)
Commissioner of Agriculture Butch Burnett (Ky.)
U. S. Rep. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Colo.)
Speaker Pro Tem Jim Campbell (Ala)
Speaker Jimmy Clark (Ark.)
Former State Treasurer Bill Cole (Miss.)
Former Gov. J. P. Coleman (Miss.)
Commissioner Jim Clyburn (S. Carol.)
U. S. Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.)
U. S. Rep. Norm Dicks (Wash.)
Speaker Joe Dini (Nev.)
President Pro Tem Ryan deGraffenried, Jr. (Ala.)
U.S. Rep. Tom Downey (N.Y.)
Lt. Gov. Brad Dye (Miss.)
Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom, Jr. (Ala)
U. S. Rep. Bart Gordon (Tenn.)
Atty. Gen. Robert Henry (Okla.)
Former Gov. Ed Herschler (Wy.)
Former Gov. Jim Hunt (N. Carol.)
State Auditor Pete Johnson (Miss.)
U. S. Rep. Ed Jones (Tenn.)
State Auditor Julia Hughes Jones (Ark.)
U. S. Rep. Tom Lantos (Calif.)
Speaker Gib Lewis (Tex.)
U. S. Rep. Marilyn Lloyd (Tenn.)
Secretary of State Bill McCuen (Ark.)
Former Sen. Tom Mclntyre (N. Hamp.)
U. S. Rep. Tom McMillen (Md.)
Gov. Ned McWherter (Tenn.)
Senate President Mike Miller (Md.)
Speaker Jon Mills (Fla.)
Speaker Clayton Mitchell, Jr. (Md.)
Speaker Tom Murphy (Ga)
Commissioner Bob Odom (La.)
U. S. Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.)
State Auditor Ed Renfrow (N. Carol.)
U. S. Sen. TerrySanford (N. Carol.)
U. S. Sen. Jim Sasser (Tenn.)
Former Gov. Grant Sawyer (Nev.)
Speaker Bob Sheheen (S. Carol.)
House Majority Leader Greg Stumbo (Ky.)
Public Service Commissioner D. W. Snyder (Miss.)
Atty. General Mary Sue Terry (Va.)
Secretary of Labor Gail Truly (La.)
Gov. Wallace Wilkinson (Ky.)
Treasurer Bill Wiley (Va.)
...And by 500 state and local officials from the following states:
| Alabama Alaska Arkansas California Connecticut Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Michigan Minnesota Mississippi |
New Hampshire New Mexico New York Nevada North Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Texas Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming |
Yes! I want to join these Americans in supporting Senator Gore
□ I will serve on Al Gore's steering committee.
□ I will pass out literature in my congressional district.
□ I will volunteer for Al Gore in my congressional district.
□ I will call other Democrats in my congressional district on behalf of Gore.
□ Here's my contribution for $
National Campaign Headquarters
P.O. Box 15800
Arlington, VA 22215
703-979-1988
[union bug] Paid for by Albert Gore, Jr. for President Committee, Inc.
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